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Soprano saxophonist Emile Parisien’s new disc is deliberately, and satisfyingly, international.
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The rewards of these and other recordings provide ample proof that, with its shape-shifting qualities, the string quartet will continue to be a powerful asset for talented jazz composers.
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As the age of Covid-19 wanes (or waxes?), Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, and music. Please check with venues about whether the event is available by streaming or is in person. More offerings will be added as they come in.
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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Newly recorded in the original German, Anton Reicha’s Lenore offers a vivid response to Bürger’s famous “Gothic” ballad from 1774.
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Director Lana Wachowski seems less interested in telling a coherent story with fleshed out characters than she is in aggressively commenting on how we’re trapped in a cycle of reboots and remakes with no end in sight.
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The Cave of Winds and Breath By Breath amply confirm that, regardless of the stress of COVID, jazz’s life-force remains strong as we venture into a brave new year.
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The new musical by Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire is a show that everyone who believes in the artistic future and emotional power of the American musical will want to see.
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The knee-jerk, hateful reviews of Don’t Look Up possess comments so outsized, and so beside the point, that they bear a resemblance to the oblivious thinking of the movie’s anti-science ostriches.
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Visual Arts Commentary: John Singer Sargent — A Particular Sort of Loner